Ephesians 2:10
10 For [gar] we are [esmen] his [autos] workmanship, [poiema] created [ktizo] in [en] Christ [Christos] Jesus [Iesous] unto [epi] good [agathos] works, [ergon] which [hos] God [theos] hath before
ordained [proetoimazo] that [hina] we should walk [peripateo]
in [en] them. [autos]KJV-Interlinear
10 For
we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. NASB
And why can’t man have
any say or participation in his own salvation?
Because salvation is the work of God, but more than that, it is
accompanied by a creation, a new creation of a new type of person, namely you
as a saved person. And you cannot create
yourself, certainly, just like you have no part in any form of creation of
anything new as to any other part of your life or anyone else's life.
Man cannot create
life. You cannot create life. The closest that you can come to that is in
procreation of our own species, but even then people simply go through the
motions and do not even create their own seed within them. The biology is not a part of any conscious
effort, plan, or design on your part, just as you cannot make your own hair
grow, or not grow, or your heart to beat or to not beat, and so forth.
Man is the workmanship of
Christ, created in Christ. Christ
originally created man in a state of innocence and perfection. Man chose to leave that state through sin,
and thereafter, man is born into the sin nature in every generation since Adam.
In salvation, Christ
again created man for perfection, but in order to gain that state, man has to
believe in Christ. Many do not.
Unto good works, means
Gods works, or divine works. These are
not the works of the sin nature, which is sin or evil or human works, all of
which are evil.
Good works are the works
of the spiritual life, the life that is lived from within the spiritual sphere,
which we call fellowship. Fellowship is
obtained through the confession process.
God had before ordained, ‘proetoimazo,’
is a phrase that means prepared beforehand, predestined, or predetermined. God in eternity past set out a plan, whereby
he designed for you, a life in eternity. That life had to be one which was
compatible with His essence, namely one without sin.
But along came sin and
thus human history had to be completed in order to raise up every person who
would be born, in order that every person would have a chance to believe or
not, and in order that the angelic conflict which began with Satan, could be
resolved.
Once all of that has been
accomplished, then eternity, as originally designed and intended by God, will
come into existence and continue on forever.
That we should walk in
them, is a reference to Gods good works, not mans. Not your good intentions, not your sincerity,
not your own good deeds, not your opinions, nothing that originates from you or
your pretense, or your imagination.
You have nothing that you
can offer or do to improve Gods plan.
Gods plan is perfect and complete and doable. Your plans are not. Mans plans are not.
Gods objective for
eternity is not for man to rule or even travel the galaxies or the universe,
but to live in heaven with God in a state of perfection, without sin, without
evil, and most certainly without mans help.
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